[Distutils] Improving Communication

[Wayne Werner]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 9:54 PM Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Friday, April 20, 2018, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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>> * A lot of the technology in this stack is particularly old, and lacks a
>> lot of the modern day affordances that newer things have. An example is
>> being able to edit a discussion post to fix typos that can hinder the
>> ability of others to actually understand whats being talked about. In your
>> typical mailing list or IRC there’s no mechanism by which you can edit an
>> already sent message, so your only option is to either let the problem ride
>> and hope it doesn’t trip up too many people, or send an additional message
>> to correct the error. However these show up as additional, later messages
>> which someone might not even see until they’ve already been thoroughly
>> confused by the first message (since people tend to read email/IRC in a
>> linear fashion).
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> Issues, Pull Requests, Wikis, and Team Discussions are all editable.
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Though one thing I've noticed is that a lot of issues get created and
responded to via email clients that hide the existing message so someone
will say "I agree" or worse, +1, and then there's 400 line of email. I
don't know if GH has fixed the display on those things yet.

FWIW.

-W

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